The women in Michael's family - namely his wife, Amanda, and daughter, Tracey, are portrayed as 'spoilt lazy brats' who want for nothing and use Michael as a human credit card. Each are painted in an extremely negative light, with Amanda - a former stripper/prostitute - running off to have an affair with the tennis coach and Tracey throwing herself into the reality television industry, which usually requires her to wear skimpy, highly suggestive outfits. The women in GTA V are shown to make very ill-informed decisions, and must be "saved" from themselves. For instance, one mission sees Michael, "the man" save Tracey from a yacht as he suspects she is filming a porno while Amanda is frequently depicted as a free-loading sponger without any sort of identity, career hopes or personality. Both are portrayed as powerless, naive and spiteful individuals who gamers are made to 'hate' due to their selfish actions, whereas instead, we should be lamenting Rockstar for not creating a strong female role.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
